Enri Canaj was born in Tirana, Albania, in 1980. He spent
his early childhood there and moved with his family to Greece in 1991,
immediately after the opening of the borders. He is based in Athens and covers
stories in Greece and the Balkans.

He studied photography at the Leica Academy in Athens. In 2007
he took part in a British Council project on migration, attending a year-long
workshop with Magnum photographer Nikos Economopoulos.

Since 2008, he has been a
freelance photographer for major publications such as Time Lightbox , CNN Photo, New York Magazine, MSNBC
Photography, Vice Magazine, The Financial Time , Newsweek, Paris Match, Le monde
Diplomatique ,sample of his work has been exhibited at the Museum of
Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki personal exhibition), Benaki Museum Athens,
Museum of Photography Thesaloniki, BOZAR Center for Fine Arts , Cultural
Foundation of the National Bank of Greece in Athens and Salonica, at the Bilgi
Santral in Istanbul, the European Parliament in Brussels and the Athens Photo
Festival, New Delhi Foto Festival, Doku Fest in Kosovo, Foto Art Festival in
Poland, Bursa Foto Fest in Turkey. He has been working in the Balkans, mainly
Kosovo and Albania, as well as Greece, focusing on migration and the
recent crisis.